After Eight Painful Years of Obama, Voters in 2016 Will
be Looking for Experience and a Job Resume that Shows Who Can Lead us
Out of this Mess

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is on a diet, slimming
down, and speaking around the country -- a sure sign he's in the race
for the 2016 GOP presidential nomination.

The overweight,
tough-talking former prosecutor, who made a name for himself by putting
crooked Democrats and Republicans behind bars, got a clean bill of
health this month when an investigation cleared him of involvement in
the outrageous lane closures at the George Washington Bridge.

A lengthy, nine-month federal probe into the dirty tricks fiasco that
threatened Christie's political future concluded that it had found
nothing to implicate the governor in what became known as the
"Bridgegate" scandal.

Christie's blunt style of politics may
not be for everyone, but it has won him legions of fans who are looking
for an effective political fighter on their behalf. He was accurately
described by former White House speech writer, and now a syndicated
columnist, Michael Gerson, as the "Ford Gran Torino of GOP politics -- a
bit ungainly, but a V-8 under the hood… with some dents."

He will enter a crowded field of Republican candidates who are also
testing the waters, but with one big difference from two years ago.

In sharp contrast to the weak, baggage-heavy field of presidential
wannabes in 2012, this crop of candidates is largely made up of
politically tested governors, or former governors, who've run their
state governments, wrestled with legislatures, pushed through agendas,
and balanced budgets. As many as half a dozen of them, at last count.

In short, they are in sharp contrast to the inexperienced occupant
of the White House who had never run anything, not even a lemonade stand
-- the result of which is a failed chief executive who has presided
over a weak, lackluster, underperforming economy for the past six years.

Barack Obama has lots of other failures, one of which is not
knowing how to run a government. Indeed, it is hard to recall a previous
president who has had so many political and departmental management
scandals.

The Internal Revenue Service's politically-driven
drive to undermine conservative educational groups; the deadly coverup
in the Veterans Administration where ill veterans couldn't get the
medical care they desperately needed; the State Department's shocking
failure to respond to the cry for help from the U.S. ambassador in
Benghazi, Libya; the management breakdown at the Department of Homeland
Security.

It's a little too early to figure out who is
leading in the GOP's 2016 sweepstakes. No doubt, that's going to be a
bit clearer after the Nov. 4 midterm elections.

But it's not a
stretch to suggest that Republican primary voters, after two terms of
an incompetent president whose job approval numbers are in the basement,
will be looking for a leader who's been tested, who has a record of
getting things done, and getting much, if not most, of his agenda
enacted.

In other words, it's more than likely that GOP's
nominee in 2016 will be a governor. Christie has been at the top of that
lengthy list in the polls.

Just below Christie in the Real
Clear Politics poll watch is former Florida governor Jeb Bush who says
he'll make a decision by the end of this year or early next year.

Both are well known, big state names, but they could be facing
other governors in the GOP's lineup -- like Rick Perry of
Texas, Scott Walker of Wisconsin, Louisiana's Bobby Jindal, and John
Kasich of Ohio, a pivotal, must-win electoral state.

Then
there are the freshmen senators: Rand Paul of Kentucky (who is third in
the polls) Ted Cruz of Texas, and Marco Rubio of Florida. They're among
their party's new up-and-comers, though they're all in their first
terms, and still learning the ropes.

But Republicans as a
rule do not choose freshmen as their nominees, preferring seasoned
candidates who have been around the track once or twice or even three
times. Think Ronald Reagan, for instance.

Meantime,
Republicans have to begin thinking seriously about what will be the big
decisive issues in 2016 that are among the highest concerns of the
American people.

First and foremost, it is clear, even at
this stage, that a dreadfully weak Obama economy, longterm joblessness,
the nation's shrinking labor force, and largely flat middle-class
incomes will still be the overriding issues two years from now.

The candidate who wins the GOP's nomination will be the one who
makes economic concerns the chief focus of his candidacy. Who doesn't
mince words about the failed economic policies that Obama and his party
have inflicted on our country that have hurt tens of millions of
lower-and-middle income Americans who have told pollsters they're still
struggling.

Very near the top of that issue is the exploding
federal debt, the result of six years of record budget deficits that
not only threaten our nation's solvency but our national security as
well.

Then comes Obamacare and how Obama and his party
repeatedly told us that if we liked our medical care policy, we could
keep it. His lie was exposed when millions of us got notices that our
policies would be terminated and we had to get new ones that, not
surprisingly, cost more than our previous plans.

Then comes
the president's dangerously naive foreign policy of retreat from the war
on terrorism that has led to a resurgent and much greater threat abroad
and to our own national security here at home.

All of these
are winning issues in and of themselves. But they demand an experienced,
confident, yet level-headed leader who can appeal to a far broader
electorate with a common sense agenda for change.

These are
dangerous times we've gotten ourselves into that will require an
uncommonly qualified candidate to get our country back on the road to
prosperity and renewal.

So choose carefully and wisely
America. Two years from now, it may be the most important decision we've
ever made in a generation.

The Day the Coast Guard Saved America

It was a fairly routine day at Michigan’s Coast Guard
Station Saginaw River – until the telephone rang. It was Thursday
afternoon, September 18.

A baby eagle had been spotted in the
water by the captain of a sailboat. The bird was in distress. It was
wounded and could not get up.

Petty Officer 2nd Class Andy Burns was up river conducting a training exercise when he heard the call over the radio.

Once the Coast Guard crew realized they were rescuing an eagle – their mission took on great significance.

Burns turned around the 45-foot rescue boat and set a course to find and rescue the wounded bird.

“We
spotted her swimming along a sea wall,” the petty officer told me. “She
was barely moving. She was using her wings to swim in the water.”

The Coast Guard crew watched as the eagle floated to a rocky area where she sat down and stretched out her wings.

“We realized she wasn’t going to be able to get up on her own,” he said. “We needed to do something to help her out.”

But
a rescue would pose quite the challenge for the crew. That portion of
the river was too shallow.

The boat could not maneuver in the waters.
And there were also other considerations that had to be made.

First,
they had to get permission from the Michigan Department of Natural
Resources (DNR) to rescue the bird. Permission was readily granted.

Once
that happened, they had to obtain permission to access the property
where the bird was stranded. That property is owned by Consumers Power
Plant. Not only did they grant permission, the plant dispatched a
security guard to help the Coast Guard.

Sharia in Actions: Human Rights Activist, Convicted of Apostasy, is Tortured before a Masked Firing Squad Executed Her

Pamela Geller / Atlas Shrugs

Bear
this in mind when the feminists stand shoulder to should with Islamic
supremacists insist the sharia empowers women. But their silence is
deafening, their inaction complicity, in the face of such horror.

GENEVA — An Iraqi lawyer known for her work promoting women’s rights
has been killed by Islamic State fighters, the head of the United
Nations human rights office said Thursday.

The lawyer, Sameera Salih Ali al-Nuaimy, was seized from her home
last week and tortured before a masked firing squad executed her in
public on Monday, Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein, the United Nations human rights commissioner, said in a statement.
...

Oh, the irony. Just days after Mayor de Blasio blasted our AFDI counter-jihad ads
in New York subways as “outrageous, inflammatory and wrong” comes this
new confirmation of how right we are: an Islamic State jihad plot to the
New York City subways, announced by Iraq’s Prime Minister and involving
jihadists from the U.S. De Blasio and Governor Cuomo are downplaying,
but in reality the jihad threat to New York City is ongoing. People
should not indeed live in fear, but they should be aware of the nature
and magnitude of the threat — which de Blasio seems intent on obscuring.

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP) – Iraq’s prime minister said
Thursday that captive Islamic State militants told his intelligence
agents of an alleged plot to attack subways in the United States and
Paris, France.

Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi said he was told of the purported plot
by officials in Baghdad, and that it was the work of foreign fighters
who had joined the Islamic State group in Iraq, including French and
U.S. nationals. Al-Abadi’s assertion has not be independently confirmed
by U.S. government intelligence.

Asked if the attacks were imminent, he said, “I’m not sure.” Asked if the attacks had been thwarted, he said, “No, it has not been disrupted yet— this is a network.”

“Today, while I’m here I’m receiving accurate reports from Baghdad
that there were arrests of a few elements and there were networks from
inside Iraq to have attacks — on metros of Paris and U.S.,” al-Abadi
said, speaking in English. “They are not Iraqis.

Some of them are French, some of them are Americans. But they are in Iraq.”

Al-Abadi said the United States had been alerted. He declined to give the location in the U.S. where such an attack might occur.

He made the remarks at a meeting with journalists on the sidelines of
a gathering of world leaders at the United Nations General Assembly.

A senior Obama administration official told The Associated Press no
one in the U.S. government is aware of such a plot, adding that the
claim was never brought up in meetings with Iraqi officials this week in
New York. President Barack Obama met with al-Abadi Wednesday.

Al Sharpton Wants to Help Search for Holder's Replacement

Sharpton said in a statement that his civil rights organization, the National Action Network,
is "engaged in immediate conversations with the White House on their
deliberations over a successor, whom we hope will continue in the
general direction of Attorney General Holder."

Sharpton also praised Holder, who will step down once a replacement is found after a term that began in February 2009.

"The resignation of Attorney General Eric Holder is met with both pride
and disappointment by the civil rights community," Sharpton said. "We
are proud that he has been the best attorney general on civil rights in
U.S. history and disappointed because he leaves at a critical time when
we need his continued diligence most."

"His accomplishments in working to protect American’s from terrorism,
fighting to protect voter rights, challenging unfair sentencing,
directing U.S. attorneys on fair prosecution, and being the only
attorney general to visit the site of a civil rights complaint in
Ferguson must be noted in American history."

"We did not say we are in the decision-making. We are in conversation to
reach out to them to have meetings about what we want to see in a
successor," Sharpton said.

There were rumors last week that Holder might hand in his resignation papers before
the end of the year, especially as he was about to accomplish one of
his goals since joining the Justice Department: visiting each of the 93
U.S. attorney's offices across the country.

Holder also had a health scare in February when he was taken to the hospital after feeling faint and with an elevated heart rate.

Report: Obama administration pays WebMD to propagandize Obamacare

WebMD
is the Wikipedia of general health information for the English-speaking
world. That’s a rough comparison — WebMD also represents itself as an
advocate for patients and a current events tracker for health issues.
But it nevertheless collects more site visits than any other U.S. health information resource.

WebMD
is a corporation; there’s nothing governmental or para-governmental
about it. So it must have made perfect sense for the Obama
administration to finger WebMD as the ideal proxy propaganda machine to
promote the launch of Obamacare.

The Washington Free Beacon reported Thursday
that the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) continues to pay
WebMD for helping to carry out the “Affordable Care Act (ACA) and
Health Care Priorities Educational Initiative” as part of a contract
that extends through September of 2015.

According to the Free
Beacon, the federal government has paid WebMD almost $14 million since
contracting with the site in 2011 to show the public the good side of
Obamacare. News of that agreement was made public last fall; but at the
time, the contract was valued at only $4.8 million.

Crucial to the
government’s enlistment of WebMD is its faith in the site as an
“official” source of reliable health information. The Free Beacon quotes
from the contract agreement:

“The goal of this task
order is to encourage providers and consumers to turn to official
information sources regarding the ACA and to create an accurate
perception of the ACA among health care providers and consumers,” the
document said.

Incredibly, WebMD’s entire section on “Health Care Reform” was not funded via the HHS contract, according to WebMD’s Michael Heinley.

“It
is first important to point out that no government agency, including
the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Health & Human
Services (HHS) or any other third party funded the creation of WebMD’s
editorial content (videos or otherwise) that appears in the WebMD Health
Care Reform Center,” he told the Free Beacon. “The WebMD Health Care
Reform Center provides original, independent editorial content produced
by WebMD.”

So the contract is paying WebMD to write about every topic except Obamacare? Sounds like a glitch.

Let's be honest here...Barack HUSSEIN Obama is an enemy of these
United States...Barack HUSSEIN Obama is an enemy of the west...Barack
HUSSEIN Obama is an enemy of Israel...and Barack HUSSEIN Obama is an
enemy of all things decent and moral...at least all things decent and
moral according to America's Judeo-Christian tenets that is. And both his
actions and his words cannot make it any clearer that Barack HUSSEIN
Obama's loyalties lie with the enemy known as islam.

Speaking before the U(seless) N(ations) this past Wednesday, the man who
thinks nothing of trampling on our Constitution had the audacity to state that the U.S. will NEVER be at
war with islam. And while he might try to fool himself and his blind followers we conservatives refer to as the 'sheeple',
the truth is that America is most certainly at war with islam and has
been ever since that sunny day in September thirteen years ago when his
brethren...his brethren...changed our beloved America forever.

And by the way, I and countless others are still waiting all these
many years for the so-called 'moderate' muslims here in this country
to condemn that horrific act, but their joint silence still remains
deafening to this day...as their joint silence proves the words
'moderate' and muslim are antonyms of each other.

And now in NO particular order are but some of the many highlights
from a speech full of lies that was only interrupted by words of a
treasonous nature.

Saying before the UN...spewing actually that, "I have made it
clear that America will not base our entire foreign policy on reacting
to terrorism. Rather, we have waged a focused campaign against al-Qaeda
and its associated forces – taking out their leaders, and denying them
the safe-havens they rely upon. At the same time, we have reaffirmed
that the United States is not and never will be at war with Islam. Islam
teaches peace. Muslims the world over aspire to live with dignity and a
sense of justice. And when it comes to America and Islam, there is no
us and them – there is only us, because millions of Muslim Americans are part of the fabric of our country," Obama is either just totally clueless or more likely doing the bidding of his islamic masters.

"...the United States is not and never will be at war with Islam..."
Oh really...just ask the families of the 3,000+ Americans whose sons
and daughters NEVER came home from fighting those who went to war in the
name of islam...whose sons and daughters NEVER came home from fighting
those who want to kill us all.

"Islam teaches peace," Obama said. Oh really...just ask the
families of James Foley or Steven Sotloff how peaceful these islamic
savages are as they cut off their son's heads in the name of islam...in
the name of allah... allah...the made-up deity all followers of islam
subjugate themselves to...the made-up deity all followers of islam kill
in the name of.

"...there is only us, because millions of Muslim Americans are part of the fabric of our country,"
Obama said. But that is NOT the truth for muslims in America are NOT
willing to become part of the fabric of our American society...just ask
those 'real' Americans still living in what's now known as
Dearbornistan, Michigan...just ask those living in states where liberal
judges have allowed the abomination known as sharia law to creep into
America's judicial system.

And so his bloviations went on...went on selling out America...went
on selling out Israel...went on with carefully chosen words proving
Barack HUSSEIN Obama's true allegiance is to islam.

Trying to make us believe that his words of wanting to fight what he called "the cancer of violent extremism,"
is for anything but political maneuvering to stop the free-fall of his current poll
numbers...Obama is a fool to think we don't know that
ISIS...and now the new to the forefront group known as Khorasan...ISIS'
heir apparent...will become an even bigger headache to his total
foreign policy failures than the Muslim Brotherhood was then and ISIS is
now.

And never forget that Obama does NOT really accept ISIS or any of the
other terrorist groups as a tangible threat to our homeland NO matter
that some Americans who went to fight with ISIS...who went to fight with
Khorasan...are now back on American soil. And please remember that
Obama has been indirectly arming and training ISIS and other terrorist
groups for the past two years...via the anything but 'moderate' Free
Syrian Army who have direct ties to ISIS...and that he did so in his
quest to take down Bashir al-Assad's secular government...a government
that the Syrian people freely voted for...a government that as bad as it
is, is still a hell of a lot better than any that would be in effect
under the ISIS and Obama oh so-wanted islamic caliphate.

And this most vile of men went out of his way to condemn our ally
Israel...in fact he went out of his way to first solidify his allegiance
to Iran when he had the audacity to say that a nuclear deal with Iran
is still possible."We can reach a solution that meets your energy needs while assuring the world that your program is peaceful,"
he said knowing damn well their program is anything but peaceful. And then this most
vile of men segued right into blaming Israel for the collapse of the
Israeli/Palestinian peace talks.

“The violence engulfing the region today has made too many Israelis ready to abandon the hard work of peace...that's
something worthy of reflection within Israel,” Obama said...words NOT
in his prepared teleprompted statement making them even more grievous as he went out of his way to say them...never mind that it
was and still is Gaza-based Hamas that has been the one to break all
cease-fires as well as being the one who keeps lobbing rockets into
Israel.

But to the man who wears his hate for Israel and its Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu on this sleeve, these words should NOT have been all
that unexpected.

And let's NOT forget that during his speech Obama praised controversial muslim cleric Sheikh Abdallah bin Bayyah with his words, “Look
at the new Forum for Promoting Peace in Muslim Societies—Sheikh bin
Bayyah described its purpose: ‘We must declare war on war, so the
outcome will be peace upon peace.’” And this is beyond just spewing
mere words for Barack HUSSEIN Obama openly and willingly praised a man
who still endorses the terrorist group Hamas; a man who supported a 2004 fatwa that advocated violent resistance against American soldiers fighting in Iraq by saying that “resisting occupation troops” is a “duty” for all muslims; a man who in 2009 issued a fatwa “barring ‘all forms of normalization’ with Israel;” and a who man who served as the vice president of a radical Muslim Brotherhood group whose leader called for “for the death of Jews and Americans."

This is the man who Barack HUSSEIN Obama publicly praised...but I call his words spoken words
of a treasonous nature for he showed his support for a man who supports and advocates
the killing of American soldiers...the very men and women he, as President, is
Commander-in-Chief of.

And lastly, we can't forget Obama's words spewed concerning NO American boots on the
ground. "American ground troops won't be part of the fight," he said.

Outlining his plans for combating ISIS...plans of limited
substance which included the now ongoing 'limited' air strikes in Syria (can't kill too many of the brethren you know); plans concerning
the training and equipping of those fighting ISIS (as in his actions of
training and arming the anything but 'moderate' Free Syrian Army); as
well as his plans for working to cut off ISIS' financing and ability to recruit
foreign fighters... Obama reiterated the words he's said so many times
before...words the generals on the ground and in advisory positions say need to be reconsidered...words that "American ground troops won't be part of the fight."

"NO" Obama said...American troops will NOT be part of this
fight against ISIS for having to send them back after declaring
America's involvement in Iraq to be over would force Obama to admit that
he and his policies had indeed lost the peace after George W. Bush's
policies had won the war. And that is something that a man more
concerned with his image than with re-securing the now lost peace would
NEVER do...that is unless it would help raise his still falling poll
numbers.

Better to send 3,000 of our troops to fight Ebola in countries that
hate us as much as the islamic savages in Iraq and Syria do. Real good
strategy this is NOT...especially after Obama's claim that ISIS is an
immediate threat to the homeland. So, true to his traitorous nature he thinks it best to send our troops where they
will make NO difference at all...except maybe to have Ebola 'cull the
herd' for him...'cull the herd' of America's military best.

So here we stand "at a crosswords"...three words Obama also
said...but my words after hearing his speech of lies and treasonous
rhetoric make me realize all the more that this November is our last
chance to render this man politically impotent from inflicting on
America and the rest of the world any more damage or harm.

Click on link below to see Obama's full speech before the U(seless) N(ations).